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The part of the sentence "decision was affirmed" is correct and usable in written English.
It means that a decision was confirmed or validated. You can use it when you are discussing a situation in which a judgement or verdict has been approved or accepted. For example: "The court's decision was affirmed, meaning that the judgement would stand."
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Dr. Gross appealed but Justice Wilk's decision was affirmed.
On an appeal to the Circuit Court of Appeals that decision was affirmed.
403, and this decision was affirmed by the Circuit Court of Appeals, 250 Fed.
The decision was affirmed by a federal appeals court in 1979.
That decision was affirmed in June 1998 by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Last August, Justice Diane A. Lebedeff of State Supreme Court in Manhattan agreed, and that decision was affirmed yesterday.
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The court of Appeals was right, and its decision is affirmed.
"If this decision is affirmed by the Court of Appeals, the implications will be enormous and potentially horrendous for all co-op owners," he said.
"If today's decision is affirmed by the Court of Appeals, I will urge the Legislature to change the State's Domestic Relations Law to permit gay marriage".
When the Court splits four to four, the lower-court decision is affirmed, but the Justices don't write an opinion and the ruling does not represent a national precedent.
See id. at 18. Furthermore, the fact that only one other lawsuit is pending in the court system suggests that, if the decision is affirmed, the immediate increase in the number of lawsuits might not even be very high at all.
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decision was made
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